Some problems with "A New Dawn"

AkaiNeko4·7/23/2014, 12:24:17 AM·3 votes·881 views

First off, I like the video. So this isn't me laying into the team that made it or anything. Just some things I thought could've been better.

I liked the character design style better in "A Twist of Fate". I feel like that one had more of a "stylized realism" approach, while this one....looked kinda Pixar-y. I am not ashamed to admit that I would've preferred to see Ahri looking sexier in the other art style over seeing her in this odd, super-deformed sorta style. And Ahri only had one tail, so that's weird.

The....character presentation felt a little wonky, too. Which isn't very clear. Um....I'm a pro-wrestling fan, and pro wrestling makes a decent analogue for League - large casts of unique characters who are all definitely badass, but who's more badass than who, and who the MOST badass is at a given point, are at best very vague and situational; thus, beyond specific story concerns for a specific match, we prefer that all involved get to put up a good showing so that, no matter who actually wins, everyone comes out looking strong.

Draven got Rengar'ed without doing much of anything. Zyra tried to block Orb of Deception with her plants and died. Jax fought a little three-minute-nothing with Darius and then got squashed. Kat failed to accomplish anything in actual combat. And I can only assume Ahri had no mana for most of the fight.

Meanwhile Graves kicks all kinds of ass and - uniquely for this video - goes out like a boss, Nautilus is much bigger than I'm pretty sure he should be (isn't he supposed to be around the size of a Big Daddy?) and has power to match, and Darius is treated (by the camera) as a massive threat throughout and has to get 3v1'ed at the end (because apparently this Rengar doesn't know what he's doing and Ahri for some reason forgot she could fight).

So Leona was kinda the only one I felt got a fair and balanced presentation, and she wasn't there for most of it.

tl;dr: Weird art and fight-scripting kept this from being as awesome as it should have been, but it's still really cool. Thoughts?

9 Comments

MarhsallLee677/23/2014, 12:29:02 AM3 votes

Ahri didn't have one tail- they were just all folded together until the end when she went ape-shite on Darius and they unfolded.

And Jax was backdooring the nexus while everybody else was wasting time getting kills. Duh.

Ironclad Dragon7/23/2014, 2:28:59 AM1 votes

Seeing how he's a walking submarine, as the cinematic development crew put it, Nautilus would pack a serious punch. As for why he's so big... remember that he's the Titan of the Depths, and carries an ship's anchor as a weapon. Those things aren't small.

Deychundei7/23/2014, 3:34:13 PM1 votes

I really enjoyed the art style in this cinematic, i was hoping to find out why they chose to go with that style and what influenced it.

Dont get me wrong i also liked the art style in A Twist of Fate, but this one reminded me more of Clone Wars, and seemed to match the upcoming Summoners Rift VU. Also made me wonder if the champions were going to get a tweak to match the Rift.